“some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.”
Source: Enough Rope
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Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter." by Dorothy Parker?
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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
[http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx "President's News Conference (107)" (21 March 1962)
1962
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Variant: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.
Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
Sten Nadolny (1942) German novelist
Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'.
Netzkarte (1981)
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“Let your conduct towards men have some uniformity.”
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“Are you real men or some goddamned faggots?”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Said to avant-garde artists (Ely Bielutin and Ernst Neizvestny) during a visit to their exhibition (1 December 1962)